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Monday, January 02, 2017

The US media does not see fit to mention that the government making
the accusations against Russia runs the world’s largest hacking and
cyber espionage program, the aim of which, according to documents
released by Edward Snowden, is to collect or hack all the data in the
world, under the slogan “Collect it all… Exploit it all.”This is the government that, with Israel, created and released the
Stuxnet worm to attack Iran, and was shown to have tapped the phone of
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and spied on Internet connections at the
United Nations. As for “influencing” the elections of other countries, a
history of the covert operations by the US and its intelligence
agencies to manipulate political events, swing elections and overthrow
elected governments around the world would comprise several volumes.It does not take a great deal of imagination to surmise that Russia,
like any other country, carries out espionage over the Internet. But in
this case, the allegations that Russia hacked into the Democratic
National Committee are unsubstantiated.

Neither the White House, nor the US intelligence agencies, nor the
media, nor any private security firm has produced any information that
would lead an impartial person with basic knowledge of communications
technology to conclude that Russia carried out a major cyber attack
against the United States.

At least seven people were reported killed Thursday when a US-led
coalition warplane carried out an air strike against the Ibn-Al-Athir
hospital compound in Mosul. The attack came as Iraqi government troops
launched what has been described as the second phase of the bloody siege
of Iraq’s second-largest city, which was overrun by fighters of the
Islamic State (ISIS) in June of 2014.The US command of the Pentagon’s military operations in Iraq and
Syria, dubbed Operation Inherent Resolve, issued a rare statement
immediately acknowledging the attack on the hospital, a war crime.

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